University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1983
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Coach doesn't rest on letter-of-intent day
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Head football coach Mike Gottfried had a chance to sit around in his office yesterday after the toughest recruiting year he's ever had.
But Gottfried's day still was no vacation.
Yesterday was the first day that high school seniors could accept college football scholarships and sign letters of intent.
Because of a National College Athletic Association rule, Gottfried and other head coaches around the nation could not leave their campuses. On Wednesday, they allowed to contact the recruits at home and in school on signing day.
DAVE CAWOOD, director of public relations for the NCAA, said the rule had been passed last year at the request of a group of coaches on the recruiting committee. The coaches said they each had been placed in an uncomfortable position by not being able to personally sign each recruit.
Or, as Gottfried said, "A coach would have to have a personal helicopter to keep up with the other coaches."
keep up with the other.
As he sat behind his desk piled with random stacks of paper, a set of barren bookshelves behind him, he got one of the many telephone calls he would receive during the day from his seven assistants in the field, most of whom were out of the state.
"Yeah, buddy." Gottfried said. He paused to listen.
paused to listen.
"Yeah. We'll take both of those guys."
'Yeah. We'll take both of those guys
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if you can sign them. Did you sign Frank yet? not. As soon as you get Frank, call me back."
AFTER GOTTRIED was finished with his conversation he said, "I kind of feel like a stock broker getting all of these calls."
However, Gottfried said he did not feel bad that he could not meet with his girlfriend.
certainly was. "It's not really that hectic on signing day," Gottfried said. "The most hectic days are usually the ones right before
signing day since they usually put off the decision to the last minute.
"I did my share of work," his share, he said, included intense training in the state and in several other states that took more than a month of 20-hour days.
"I did my share of work already."
Gottfried, previously head coach at the University of Cincinnati, was named head football coach at KU on Dec. 27.
HE SAID that most of the recruiting effort this year, which started slowly because of the coaching change, had involved high school seniors visiting the campus and meeting with staff and faculty.
Each recruit is allowed three visits to the campus and three visits from a member of the coaching staff, Gottfried said.
the recruit would tour the campus with several students, meet with coaches and then talk to the academic adviser about possible course work, he
Gettried tried he thought the academic program at KU was one of his
recruiting program's best selling points.
HE SAID that six of the students he had signed yesterday, planned to major in engineering. Some of the students met with an administrator in the School of Engineering and were impressed, he said.
"The great thing about recruiting this season was that I enjoyed telling them about the University of Kansas and its excellence," he said.
Gottried said that although his day would not be hectic, it would be long
After finishing any last minute decisions in the afternoon and evening, he was scheduled to appear on two radio talk shows and planned to start driving to Cincinnati at 1 a.m. today to see his family.
He said he wanted to have his family packed and moved into a home in Lawrence by Sunday so he could start meeting the team Monday.
But first things I have — 'I've been away from home so long that the first thing I'll have to do is recruit my own kids again,' he said.
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
Former KU students default less often on educational loans from the federal government than other students from around the country do; the director of financial aid said yesterday.
But a change in the default definition proposed by the federal government could increase the number of students considered delinquent, another financial officer said.
Jerry Rogers, director of KU financial aid, said the reason for the change was the bad publicity financial aid offices had gotten about the large number of unpaid loans.
The University of Kansas has default rates of 4.5 percent on National Direct Student Loans and below 5 percent on various loan programs at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said financial aid officers for each campus.
According to a 1981 study by the Department of Education, 15.4 percent of $5.7 billion in educational loans remained unpaid. That amounts to $877,900,000 in unpaid loans.
Bille Jo Burge, student financial aid director for the Med Center, said the default rate on loans awarded by her office was well under the 10 percent rate required by the government.
BUT SHE said the change proposed by the federal government could mean that more students would be considered delinquent in their payments.
"Instead of having a 91-day delinquency period, they want to change it to 31 days. Burge said "this means that we would be making one payment would be in default."
The move would mean more work for the financial aid office, because it would have only 31 days to trace the former students and notify them that they were in default, she said. The notification must be made so that if the
student refuses to pay the loan, she said, the financial aid office can prove it has tried to contact the person before turning the account over to a collection agency.
MILLIE FOREE, director of the NDSL program at the University, said that the default rate for the loans was only 4.5 percent.
"This is well below the national default level," she said. "We have strict rules set down by the government concerning repayment of the loans."
The NDSL has a 120-day limit, she said, until a payment becomes past due.
Rogers said, "It is important that the National Direct Loans are taken care of. Government funds for the program hinge on the amount of collection you have and want money for your program then you had better collect what people owe you."
FOREE SAID that the high national
rate of loan defaults was the result of poor economic conditions.
"You also have to consider the fact that many areas of the country have a higher unemployment rate than the Midwest," she said.
The government has difficulty collecting on defaulted Guaranteed Student Loans, Rogers said, but it has increased its staff to remedy the problem.
Also, the grace period after graduation for a student to start paying back his GSL was cut from nine to six months last year.
The new grace period could create a problem, Rogers said, because some students could not find jobs. As a result, some students may not be able to begin -paying back their loans before they are considered in default, he said.
The school or loan company will consider hardship cases in some conditions, he said.
Bill Hoeftord/KANSAH
Mike Gottfried, KU head football coach, spent yesterday in his office. As head coach, Gottfried could not leave the campus because it was national letter-of-intent signing day for football recruits. He kept in touch with his assistants by telephone. KU signed 13 players yesterday.
DA files arson charge after $60,000 house fire
The Douglas County district attorney's office yesterday afternoon charged a Lawrence woman with arson in connection with Monday's house fire on Montgomery St.
Judy C. Stultz, the woman, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on charges of petty theft on a warrant that had been issued in 1980.
Later yesterday the district attorney filed the arson charge.
Hunley said he had probable cause to believe that Stultz, 41, had set the fire.
that the fire had started in the middle of a concrete floor in the basement of the wooden building, he said. The floor had been exposed from the intense heat of the fire, he said.
He said he was not sure whether fuel had been used to start the fire. Tests by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation on material taken from the fire have not yet been completed, Harper said.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County District Court judge, rulated at the defendant's arrangement yesterday that she should be tested for mental competency.
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Bond for Stultz was set at $15,000. She still was in the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center late yesterday.
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